Saint Augustine on forgiveness
Saint Augustine104 quotes“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine To sing is to pray twice.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Truth is not private property.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on forgiveness
There is no future without forgiveness.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
Ayn RandAyn Rand You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John LewisJohn Lewis Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
ConfuciusConfucius Good people end up in Hell because they can’t forgive themselves.
Robin WilliamsRobin Williams Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce LeeBruce Lee Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter.
Zig ZiglarZig Ziglar
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